• Background & Purpose

• Exploration of Launch Trends

  • Total Number of Launches Historically by Country (Map)
  • Total Number of Global Launches Over Time by Private/State Classification
  • Total Number of US Launches Over Time by Private/State Classification

• Over the past century in the United States, space operations have typically been planned, organized, and executed by government entities.

• Paradigm shift in the United States (US) as a result of:

  1. Decommissioning of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle program
  2. The allowance and emergence for research and development of Commercial Orbital Transportation Services

• Goal of Briefing: To explore global & national launch trends over the years.

The data used for this exercise are two Kaggle datasets, which are as follows:

1. Latitude and Longitude for Every Country & State

2. Privatization of Space

• Judging from the numbers, space exploration has always been important to many countries historically.

• State operated launches were predominate in the earlier years; however, commercial/private operated launches are increasing in the later years.

  • This point is easily observed from the US data displayed in the the plot showing the “Total Number of US Launches Over Time by Private/State. Classification”

• New innovations are rapidly ushering in an unprecedented day of space operations and making it accessible to more people worldwide.